After more than ten years and an estimated cost of $4 billion the World Trade Center Transportation Hub and enormous sculpture that tops it, named Oculus, is rumored to finally be opening to the public […]

Netflix raised the bar earlier today when they announced on their blog that, as of now, the company will be offering unlimited maternity and paternity leave for the first year after the child’s birth or […]

77% of Americans “identify” as Christians according to a 2012 Gallup poll. 14.5% Americans live below the poverty line. That is according the 2013 Census. According to the Census that number fell from 15% in […]

It’s not really hard to tell when a system is broken when you are coming out with numbers like this. Oxfam International, a poverty fighting organization, made news at the World Economic Forum in Davos […]

And then there were two. Lavabit is shutting down, citing Lavabit owner Ladar Levison’s admission that since he shut down Lavabit he’s stopped using email altogether and if we knew what he did, we’d stop […]

Speaking of price gouging and wasteful spending, the U.S. military doesn’t want to be outdone by the healthcare industry. User Sligmit posted this invoice for a single bolt purchased by the military at a cost […]